‘The Order’ Crime Thriller Banks Nearly 10-Minute Ovation At Venice Film Festival
deadline.comAustralian filmmaker Justin Kurzel‘s crime thriller The Order made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this evening, with the Sala Grande audience giving the competition title a nine-minute, 23-second ovation.
Kurzel, along with The Order stars Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett were all in attendance, hugging each other in the gallery during the rapturous applause as Law waved to the audience.
The applause started tame before the credits even began rolling but grew as each cast member’s name appeared. The Order charts how a series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest during the 1980s.
It alights on a lone FBI agent (Law) who believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, namely the white supremacist gang known as “The Order” (led in the film by Hoult).
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